The campfire crackled, its flickering light turning the pupils of the boy holding the baby orange-red. He stared blankly at Xia Lun.
"Get some bandages," Flathead said casually. "We brought food back."
The boy did not move. He kept staring at Xia Lun.
Xia Lun met his gaze for a moment and was about to speak when Flathead frowned. "What are you standing there for? Can't you see Lorena's hurt? Get the bandages!"
"Keep your voice down," the woman said with a frown. She carefully lowered herself to the ground. "You'll attract the Nightmares."
The frail baby began to wail, and the boy nodded in silence.
Still holding the baby, he hurried to a cabinet beside the reservoir. He gently placed the baby in a stroller, rummaged through the cabinet, and pulled out a roll of clean bandages.
Xia Lun quietly looked away and adjusted the Mindvoice Earbud in his ear, asking White Line how things were going on her end.
Because of the difference in the flow of time, White Line could not answer right away. But the next moment, the boy handing Flathead the bandages spoke without warning.
"You're going to Winden Thermal Power Plant, aren't you?"
Xia Lun raised an eyebrow and regarded the strange boy warily. "How do you know?"
The boy licked his lips, looking back on the past. "Rustpeak Sanatorium. Wicker Man. You killed that cult leader. I was trapped inside Wicker Man, and you saved me. You and your friends were heading to Winden Thermal Power Plant then."
Xia Lun was surprised.
He had not expected to meet someone in the Deep Dream Layer whom he had encountered in the Shallow Dream, much less someone who could see through Psychological Invisibility.
Although most of the people in the Shallow Dream in this Scenario